Counselor Education News


April 19, 2011 - Patricia Busby
was awarded the 2011 Ann Mohead Whittle Award.
                        Davlon Miller was awarded the 2011 Counselor Education Merit Award.
 
April 24, 2010 - The Mississippi Society of Adlerian Counseling (MSAC) 2010 Spring conference. John Hawkins (President of MSAC) and other MSAC officers planned the Lifestyle Analysis in Adlerian Counseling workshop which was presented by the former president of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology and nationally recognized expert on Adlerian theory and practice, John Newbauer, Ed.D. The conference was sponsored by the DSU College of Education and the DSU Division of Counselor Education and Psychology and was held in the Jacob Conference Center at DSU.
 

April 20, 2010 - Kristen Allen was awarded the 2010 Ann Mohead Whittle Award at the DSU College of Education Recognition of Achievement Program.

April 20, 2010 - Cassandra Benner, David Mancill, Kimberly Oldham Martin, Theophilus Okpara, and Ashley Pearson were awarded the 2010 Counselor Eduation Merit Award at the DSU College of Education Recognition of Achievement Program.

April 7, 2010 - Over 100 counselors, social workers, teachers, and other helping professionals attended the 29th Annual F.E. Woodall Spring Conference for the Helping Professions April 7. The conference is held on the first Wednesday of April each year and has been named in memorial to Fred Woodall who served as faculty and program coordinator for Counselor Education for many years. The event offered up to 6.5 continuing education hours for helping professionals and included a keynote address by Dr. Carol Buchanan Jones who is a faculty member at William Carey University and is the current president of the Mississippi LPC Board. Presentation topics ranged from working with ADHD students in the classroom to the use of Animal Assisted Therapy. Presenters included DSU faculty, DSU students, and community professionals from as far away as Jackson and Starkville. 

Kristen Allen won the June Comola Graduate Student Scholarship from the Mississippi Licensed Professional Counselors Association at the annual Mississippi Counseling Association conference held November 4-6, 2009, at the Jackson Convention Complex.

 

Congratulations to Jennifer High Medders, the elected president of the Graduate Student Association of Mississippi Counseling Association!

 Congratulations to our graduate Deidre M. Byas, the elected president of Mississippi Counseling Association!